Patents by Inventor Tim RÜBENSTRUNK

Tim RÜBENSTRUNK has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus for the continuous hot-dip coating of metal strip
    Patent number: 9745653
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the continuous hot-dip coating of metal strip, preferably steel strip, comprising a melting bath vessel, a snout, which opens in the melting bath vessel, for introducing a metal strip, which is heated in a continuous furnace, into the melting bath in protective gas, and a deflecting roller, which is arranged in the melting bath vessel, for deflecting the metal strip, which is entering the melting bath, in a direction pointing out of the melting bath, wherein that end of the snout which is dipped into the melting bath has at least one runoff chamber which is bounded inward by an overflow wall, downward by a floor and outward by the wall of the snout, wherein the overflow edge of the overflow wall lies at least in sections below the melting bath surface, and wherein a suction line with a pump is connected to the runoff chamber, characterized in that the runoff chamber is provided with at least one through opening through which liquid molten metal can flow out of the mel
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Norbert Schaffrath, Thorsten Müller, Friedhelm Macherey, Gernot Nothacker, Tim Rübenstrunk
  • APPARATUS FOR THE CONTINUOUS HOT-DIP COATING OF METAL STRIP
    Publication number: 20160102393
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the continuous hot-dip coating of metal strip, preferably steel strip, comprising a melting bath vessel, a snout, which opens in the melting bath vessel, for introducing a metal strip, which is heated in a continuous furnace, into the melting bath in protective gas, and a deflecting roller, which is arranged in the melting bath vessel, for deflecting the metal strip, which is entering the melting bath, in a direction pointing out of the melting bath, wherein that end of the snout which is dipped into the melting bath has at least one runoff chamber which is bounded inward by an overflow wall, downward by a floor and outward by the wall of the snout, wherein the overflow edge of the overflow wall lies at least in sections below the melting bath surface, and wherein a suction line with a pump is connected to the runoff chamber, characterized in that the runoff chamber is provided with at least one through opening through which liquid molten metal can flow out of the mel
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Norbert SCHAFFRATH, Thorsten MÜLLER, Friedhelm MACHEREY, Gernot NOTHACKER, Tim RÜBENSTRUNK